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Letter "C" » conceive
«I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.»
Author: Virginia Satir
(Educator, Phychologist)
| Keywords:
conceive, conceive of, touched, understood
«I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Death and dying,
Living,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conceive, live-and-die, species
«I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
atheist, conceive, conceives, conceiving, Down to Earth, earth, heavens, Heaven on Earth, look up, the Earth
«I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that he is even infinitely above it.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
conceive, expects, infinitely, worship
«I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Religion
| Keywords:
Actions, causality, certain, conceive, conceives, conceive of, conceiving, Creation, creatures, directly, extent, fact, individuals, influence, influencing, judgment, of his own, personal, personal judgment, sit, sit in, spite, to that extent, to what extent
«I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.»
«It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
conceive, conceive of, detestable, Hebrew, utterly
«It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
arrogant, conceive, conceive of, despicable, hateful, Jewish
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